Mitch Fifield named Communications Minister

Surprise move in new ministry.

Victorian Liberal Senator Mitch Fifield is Australia’s new communications minister, one of many surprise appointments in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s new ministry.

Fifield also snared responsibility for the arts – which has been unpopularly held by Attorney-General George Brandis – as well as the role of the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Government.

“Humbled to have been appointed Minister for Communications, Minister for the Arts & Min Assisting @TurnbullMalcolm for Digital Government,” Fifield tweeted yesterday after the announcement was made.